List of the best Frederick Worlock movies: Dressed to Kill(1946), Love From a Stranger(1947), Hangover Square(1945), Pursuit to Algiers(1945), Man Hunt(1941), Terror by Night(1946), The Woman in Green(1945), The Macomber Affair(1947), Lady of the Tropics(1939), Miracles for Sale(1939), Strange Cargo(1940), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1941) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
72 Minutes
Colonel Cavanaugh
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Patricia Morison Edmond Breon Frederick Worlock Carl Harbord Patricia Cameron Tom Dillon Harry Cording Topsy Glyn Mary Gordon
sherlock holmes doctor watson inspector femme fatale criminal thief crafty gripping melodramatic suspenseful london apartment auction house antique shop england street murder treasure hunting clues music
Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
81 Minutes
Inspector Hobday
John Hodiak Sylvia Sidney Ann Richards John Howard Isobel Elsom Frederick Worlock Ernest Cossart Philip Tonge Anita Sharp-Bolster Billy Bevan
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
77 Minutes
Supt. Clay
Laird Cregar Linda Darnell George Sanders Glenn Langan Faye Marlowe Alan Napier Frederick Worlock J.W. Austin Leland Hodgson Clifford Brooke John Goldsworthy
composer friend father doctor singer love interest dark suspenseful london apartment music hall mental illness violence jealousy blackouts music transformation fall 1890s
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Prime Minister
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Marjorie Riordan Rosalind Ivan Martin Kosleck John Abbott Frederick Worlock Morton Lowry Leslie Vincent Gerald Hamer Rex Evans
sherlock holmes doctor watson prince prime minister singer thug spirited tense london ship algiers, algeria airplane lisbon, portugal alexandria, egypt jewel smuggling royalty impersonation sabotage attempted murder investigation
Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Lord Gerald Risborough
Walter Pidgeon Joan Bennett George Sanders John Carradine Roddy McDowall Ludwig Stossel Heather Thatcher Frederick Worlock
hunter nazi con artist secret agent police officer gripping germany forest ship london adolf hitler assassination identity theft hunting world war ii pursuit escape 1940s
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
60 Minutes
Prof. William Kilbane
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Alan Mowbray Dennis Hoey Renee Godfrey Mary Forbes Billy Bevan Frederick Worlock Leland Hodgson Geoffrey Steele Boyd Davis
sherlock holmes doctor watson major son lady villain suspenseful crafty london train station train compartment car jewelry theft murder false accusations impersonation mother/son relationship investigation mystery
When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
68 Minutes
Onslow
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Hillary Brooke Henry Daniell Paul Cavanagh Matthew Boulton Eve Amber Frederick Worlock Tom Bryson
sherlock holmes doctor watson professor moriarty beautiful woman police detective amateur sleuth suspenseful intricate london household scotland yard 221b baker street investigation murder mutilation deception hypnosis mystery rivalry discovery
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Drama
USA
1947
89 Minutes
Clerk
Gregory Peck Joan Bennett Robert Preston Reginald Denny Jean Gillie Carl Harbord Earl Smith Frederick Worlock Vernon Downing
husband wife tour guide tense suspenseful madcap kenya jungle courtroom marriage love triangle safari wealth temptation rivalry adventure 1940s
In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.
Drama
USA
1939
92 Minutes
Col. Demassey
Robert Taylor Hedy Lamarr Joseph Schildkraut Gloria Franklin Ernest Cossart Mary Taylor Charles Trowbridge Frederick Worlock Paul Porcasi Margaret Padula Cecil Cunningham
beautiful woman american millionaire adventurer priest colonel moving sad melodramatic saigon, vietnam yacht restaurant factory palace bigotry wealth immigration love triangle marriage colonialism
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Dr. Sabbatt
Robert Young Florence Rice Frank Craven Henry Hull Lee Bowman Cliff Clark Astrid Allwyn Walter Kingsford Frederick Worlock Gloria Holden William Demarest
Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.
Adventure
USA
1940
113 Minutes
Grideau
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Ian Hunter Peter Lorre Albert Van Dekker Paul Lukas Edward Ciannelli J. Edward Bromberg John Arledge Frederick Worlock Bernard Nedell
prisoner prostitute killer religious person captor cynic dark eerie profound intense prison island jungle french guiana boat religious conversion prison break death penal system boats
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Horror
USA
1941
114 Minutes
Dr. Heath
Spencer Tracy Ingrid Bergman Lana Turner Donald Crisp Ian Hunter Barton MacLane C. Aubrey Smith Sara Allgood Peter Godfrey Frederick Worlock William Tannen
dr. jekyll mr. hyde mistress brooding gripping suspenseful london laboratory split personality human nature experiments evil metamorphosis mystery 1880s
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
Musical
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Nelson Eddy Ilona Massey Charles Ruggles Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill C. Aubrey Smith Joyce Compton Dalies Frantz Walter Woolf King Phillip Terry Frederick Worlock
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
77 Minutes
George Sanders Marguerite Chapman Onslow Stevens Gale Sondergaard Alan Napier Jack Lee H.P. Sanders Don Douglas Alec Craig Leonard Mudie Frederick Worlock
A former RAF officer is enlisted in the British secret service. Germany recruits him for propaganda broadcasts to England. He uses codes in his broadcasts. When his cover is blown, he and his German girlfriend must try to escape.
Romance
USA
1941
56 Minutes
Bob Cummings Ruth Hussey Judith Anderson C. Aubrey Smith Nigel Bruce Reginald Owen Tom Conway Forrester Harvey Charles Coleman Theresa Maxwell Conover Frederick Worlock
father son swindler heiress widow wealthy man amusing melodramatic outlandish concert hall mansion party racetrack marrying for money father/son relationship morality love triangle high society debt transformation
Max Clemington (Robert Cummings) and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Max decides on Martha... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
84 Minutes
Merle Oberon George Sanders Laird Cregar Cedric Hardwicke Sara Allgood Aubrey Mather Queenie Leonard Doris Lloyd David Clyde Helena Pickard Lumsden Hare
serial killer inspector singer maid lodger chilling suspenseful disturbing london attic music hall hospital serial murders mystery investigation unusual behavior jack the ripper mystery discovery pursuit
A landlady suspects her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Adventure
USA
1942
85 Minutes
Tyrone Power Maureen O'Hara Laird Cregar Thomas Mitchell George Sanders Anthony Quinn George Zucco Edward Ashley Fortunio Bonanova Stuart Robertson Charles McNaughton
pirate governor damsel in distress english gentleman thrilling passionate amusing jamaica island pirate ship tavern fort pirates love adventure 17th century
An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love-hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
86 Minutes
George Brent Brenda Marshall George Tobias James Stephenson Lee Patrick Eric Blore Miles Mander Cecil Kellaway Mary Forbes Gilbert Emery Stanley Logan
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1947
79 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Ava Gardner Roland Culver Richard Haydn Thomas Gomez Spring Byington Porter Hall George Lloyd Maylia Lal Chand Mehra H.T. Tsiang
After WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancee who now has amnesia.
Mystery & Thriller
1943
68 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Hillary Brooke Milburn Stone Arthur Margetson Halliwell Hobbes Dennis Hoey Minna Phillips Gavin Muir Gerald Hamer Vernon Downing
sherlock holmes doctor watson inspector sister brother doctor engaging crafty intricate suspenseful estate london england hospital family feud ritual murder detective work land claim world war ii greed
Watson (Nigel Bruce) brings in Holmes (Basil Rathbone) on a case of ritual murder at the old Musgrave estate.
Adventure
1948
97 Minutes
Edmund Gwenn Donald Crisp Janet Leigh Tom Drake Rhys Williams Reginald Owen Edmond Breon Alan Napier Hugh Green Lumsden Hare Eileen Erskine
dog doctor shepherd son uplifting endearing scotland edinburgh, scotland medicine rural life pets hydrophobia father/son relationship animals underdog growing up 20th century
A dedicated Scottish doctor tries to cure Lassie's water phobia while caring for patients throughout the glen.